The OER Knowledge Cloud makes use of cookies. By continuing, you consent to this use. More information.
Data-informed open education advocacy: A new approach to saving students money and backaches
Thompson, Sydney · Cross, William · Rigling, Lillian · Vickery, John

PublishedJuly 2017
JournalJournal of Access Services
Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 118-125
CountryUnited States, North America

ABSTRACT
The North Carolina State University Libraries has long recognized the financial burden textbook costs place on students. By crosswalking information on use of our textbook collection with textbook cost and course enrollment data, we have begun to map the environment for textbook use at the university and identified opportunities for faculty outreach in promoting alternatives to traditional textbooks, including our Alt-Textbook program. This article describes our programs, our investigation of textbook use patterns, and how we are using these data to inform our practice.

Keywords Alt-Textbook project · libraries · textbook lending · Textbook Lookup Tool

ISSN1536-7975
RefereedYes
DOI10.1080/15367967.2017.1333911
Export optionsBibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar



AVAILABLE FILES
Data-informed Open Education Advocacy_ A New Approach to Saving S.pdf · 706.8KB11 downloads



Viewed by 110 distinct readers




CLOUD COMMUNITY REVIEWS

The evaluations below represent the judgements of our readers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cloud editors.

Click a star to be the first to rate this document


POST A COMMENT
SIMILAR RECORDS

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources
Jacob, Meredith; Jaszi, Peter; Adler, Prudence S.; Cross, William
Fair use enables the creation of new and different OER - resilient materials that give educators the control and flexibility to meet the needs of their students and the pedagogical goals of their courses. In competition ...
Match: Cross, William; United States; North America

Free to learn: An Open Educational Resources policy development guidebook for community college governance officials
Plotkin, Hal
Open Educational Resources (OER) offer higher education governance leaders a cost-efficient method of improving the quality of teaching and learning while at the same time reducing costs imposed on students related to ...
Match: education; United States; North America

Part one - OER adoption in an American History course: Impact on student outcomes and behaviors and relation to institutional metrics
Beile, Penny; deNoyelles, Aimee; Raible, John
This 2019 ACRL proceeding consists of two parts. The first describes a collaboration between librarians and instructional designers to promote affordable textbooks and includes results of a study investigating the ...
Match: libraries; United States; North America

RIPOFF 101: How the current practices of the textbook industry drive up the cost of college textbooks
Fairchild, Merriah; California Student Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG)
With student and faculty complaints about the price of college textbooks on the rise, the California Student Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG), the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG) and the ...
Match: education; United States; North America

The future of open libraries: Open Educational Resources and the universal library initiative
Pryde, Jessica
Institutions and non-profit organizations have produced open courseware initiatives and search engines for the use of their communities and the world at large. Libraries of all types have slowly begun to do the same. ...
Match: libraries; United States; North America

Open educational resources and the higher education environment: A leadership opportunity for libraries
Jensen, Kristi; West, Quill
Two speakers from the SPARC-ACRL Forum at the 2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting, Kristi Jensen and Quill West, have graciously agreed to share their insights into open educational resources (OER) in this month’s column. They ...
Match: libraries; United States; North America

United States: State department expands access to open educational resources in the Middle East and North Africa
Mena Report
The U.S. Department of State is sponsoring a special exchange program on Open Educational Resources (OER) for education leaders in the Middle East and North Africa. Open Educational Resources are ...
Match: United States; North America

Free textbooks gain support among campus tech leaders
Wexler, Ellen
COLLEGE TECHNOLOGY officials appear more optimistic these days about open-source textbooks and open educational resources –teaching and learning materials that can be used at no cost. According to the latest ...
Match: United States; North America

Open educational practices and technology appropriation: the case of the Regional Open Latin American Community for Social and Educational Research (CLARISE)
Betancourt Franco, María del Carmen; Celaya Ramírez, Rosario; Ramírez Montoya, María Soledad
A major challenge for the knowledge society is to narrow the education gap, hence the need for strategies that foster innovation and improvement in education. Thus, with the support of technology and the Internet, ...
Match: education; North America

But what do the students think: Results of the CUNY cross-campus zero-textbook cost student survey
Brandle, Shawna; Katz, Stacy; Hays, Anne; Beth, Amy; et al.
The results of the first cross-campus survey of student opinions on Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) courses are in: City University of New York (CUNY) students like their ZTC courses, primarily for the cost savings and ease of ...
Match: United States; North America